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unusual facts about WOR


Martha Rountree

In the 60s, she served as Washington correspondent for New York's WOR radio and other stations.


1934 in radio

The stations participating in the co-op, all serving as part-owners, include WOR-New York (Bamberger Broadcasting Service/Macy's), WGN-Chicago (The Chicago Tribune), WLW-Cincinnati (Crosley Broadcasting Corporation) and WXYZ-Detroit (Kunsky-Trendle Broadcasting).

John A. Gambling

He is survived by his wife, two daughters and his son, John R. Gambling, the host of The John Gambling Show, the current morning show on WOR.

He was member of the Gambling family, three generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. - were hosts of WOR Radio's (New York City, 710 AM) morning show Rambling With Gambling (now known as The John Gambling Show) over the course of more than 75 years (1925–2000 and 2008–present).

John B. Gambling

He was a member of the The Gambling family, 3 generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. - were hosts of WOR Radio's (New York City, 710 AM) morning show Rambling with Gambling (now known as The John Gambling Show) over the course of over 75 years (1925–2000 and 2008–present).

Julian Schlossberg

This four-hour nationally syndicated radio program aired in New York first on WMCA and subsequently on WOR.

Mizlou Television Network

Mizlou produced the first "live" coast to coast satellite feed, a New York Cosmos soccer game from San Jose, CA to WOR-TV in New York in the late '70s.

Nancy Glass

When not overseeing her company, Nancy Glass Productions, Glass has appeared as a guest or guest-host on such programs as The Daily Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN Larry King Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Morning News, Hollywood Squares, Court TV, MSNBC and as a host on WOR-radio in New York City.

Phil Tonken

Besides his long association with WOR, Tonken was a narrator for Fox Movietone News in the 1950s and 1960s, and also was announcer for a 15-minute syndicated afternoon radio science fiction program, The Planet Man, which was in the tradition of older sci-fi radio shows such as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

Puffed rice cakes

Traditionally, Wor Bar (Guoba in Mandarin, translates to "pot's burnt") refers to the slightly browned rice that is stuck to the bottom of clay pots, which, after caramelization, results in the rice being formed into a single piece and giving it a slightly burned flavor.

Rambling with Gambling

John B. Gambling started the show in March 1925, when WOR was a promotional arm of the Bamberger's department store in Newark.

Robert Lewis Shayon

Robert Lewis Shayon (August 15, 1912 – June 28, 2008) was a writer and producer for WOR and for the CBS Radio in New York City.

Ted Mallie

By the time Channel 9 moved its studios to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1986, three years after they transferred their city of license there, he and Phil Tonken were the last of the WOR radio announcers from the old-time radio era to still be employed at the station.

After WOR's FM outlet (now WRKS-FM) launched its progressive rock format on July 30, 1966, he even served a spell as a disc jockey for a time, due to a strike by its regular disc jockeys that lasted until October of that year.


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